The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.
Thanks for the detailed report on this. I was aware of some changes being made, but the whole policy smacks of involuntary human experimentation, to prove a predetermined conclusion at any price.
When combined with the very high rate of imprisonment in the USA and the penchant for arresting and locking up anyone who is a bit “different”, particularly those now tagged “nihilistic violent extremists”, this isn’t going to end well.
Enough with the commentary (I said what I said), what are we going to do about it? Do we keep making snarky comments, complaining, whining, crying, lying down and die or do we stand up and fight. I for one did not walk and crawl through decades of humiliation, pain, low self confidence and self-esteem to give up now! We need to formulate action plans and methods to protect ourselves as well as those in the prison industrial complex. We know all of the horrible stuff that can and will ensue but what are we going to do to protect ourselves ...
What are we willing to do to stand up to this abhorrent behavior and practices! No one is coming to save us!
This is an outstanding, and needed, report. We are in the early stages of a Trans Genocide, and this is just accelerating it. I've written a little about it.
This is horrifying and disgusting. There is no sense of morality behind this administration.
Just evil, plain and simple. It is no coincidence that conservative rhetoric about designating trans people as terrorists coincides with these policies.
They want trans people arrested and forcibly detransitioned.
thank you for covering this! I wonder if they used the language "the Bureau also adopts this policy independently of Executive Order 14,168" because of the court injunction in the Kingdom v. Trump class action lawsuit? Judge Lamberth blocked BoP enforcement of the executive order back in June (link to ACLU), and has renewed that injunction multiple times, disallowing the BoP from stopping trans healthcare. Is the Bureau of Prisons just playing a loophole game, where they're effectively enforcing the executive order, but now they're doing it through 'independent' policy decision that sidesteps the judge's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump?
That's how it seemed to me when I read Law Dork's (Chris Geidner's, linked below) article on this document, but he didn't seem to comment on the connection to Judge Lamberth's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump. Geidner said they "showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy", which made it sound like this document was produced in the very same case that the injunction came from - so maybe there's a connection there? I wish he had directly named the case he's referring to in that article, because it's a little confusing to me.
I appreciated your written command of the subject matter. I hope the President and his cronies get to understand said words of wisdom and soon. Posthaste!
I can talk from first hand experience from Trumps first term alone and the Fact that one of his specific policy changes damn near Killed me. No joking, no hyperbole. It came very close to doing that but I also know that it was the cause of killing a lot of other Americans with similar situations of mine. That is just on one subject.
I’m not sure why it is that on the Right Isle that life is so expendable and cheap to them unless it’s abortion?
Well, I know that the abortion is less about aborting as it is about taking away any chance of gaining a chance to get that Futire child into a Far white Christian nationalist ideology.
Society has real issues when it is forced to produce babies because or to keep up the Market share of Big Corporations. Sure, there are other reasons but it’s mainly to keep market share going and that’s the wrong reasons to have.
What else gets me is the inability of the Right to make it worth while for women to have babies.
My baby days are over and yes, subsidizing families with babies will tax those who don’t have children but that is something I am not much against doing bcz I am an American who cares about America after I am passed on. The same thing with Taxes. I know that my taxes have a purpose and pay it forward or should at least so knowing that my taxes helped anybody in any state ( Red or Blue) is worthwhile.
Otherwise known as torture.
Thanks for the detailed report on this. I was aware of some changes being made, but the whole policy smacks of involuntary human experimentation, to prove a predetermined conclusion at any price.
When combined with the very high rate of imprisonment in the USA and the penchant for arresting and locking up anyone who is a bit “different”, particularly those now tagged “nihilistic violent extremists”, this isn’t going to end well.
They're continuing the work HITLER WAS DOING. It NEVER stopped.
Enough with the commentary (I said what I said), what are we going to do about it? Do we keep making snarky comments, complaining, whining, crying, lying down and die or do we stand up and fight. I for one did not walk and crawl through decades of humiliation, pain, low self confidence and self-esteem to give up now! We need to formulate action plans and methods to protect ourselves as well as those in the prison industrial complex. We know all of the horrible stuff that can and will ensue but what are we going to do to protect ourselves ...
What are we willing to do to stand up to this abhorrent behavior and practices! No one is coming to save us!
I see many trans inmates unaliving themselves if this goes through.
Just like Epstein who died by “suicide”
This is just horrifying.
Who is providing this “therapy”? It would be unethical for any licensed professional I know of to do so.
That is very true. Unfortunately I don’t think they’ll ever tell us this.
This is absolutely horrific.
this is absolutely horrific. We need to support incarcerated trans people any way we can
Just sheer evil
Holy fuck. It was bad for trans women when I was there, but this is Auschwitz level shit. I can handl we prison, but this... I would rather die.
This is an outstanding, and needed, report. We are in the early stages of a Trans Genocide, and this is just accelerating it. I've written a little about it.
This is horrifying and disgusting. There is no sense of morality behind this administration.
Just evil, plain and simple. It is no coincidence that conservative rhetoric about designating trans people as terrorists coincides with these policies.
They want trans people arrested and forcibly detransitioned.
thank you for covering this! I wonder if they used the language "the Bureau also adopts this policy independently of Executive Order 14,168" because of the court injunction in the Kingdom v. Trump class action lawsuit? Judge Lamberth blocked BoP enforcement of the executive order back in June (link to ACLU), and has renewed that injunction multiple times, disallowing the BoP from stopping trans healthcare. Is the Bureau of Prisons just playing a loophole game, where they're effectively enforcing the executive order, but now they're doing it through 'independent' policy decision that sidesteps the judge's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump?
That's how it seemed to me when I read Law Dork's (Chris Geidner's, linked below) article on this document, but he didn't seem to comment on the connection to Judge Lamberth's injunction in Kingdom v. Trump. Geidner said they "showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy", which made it sound like this document was produced in the very same case that the injunction came from - so maybe there's a connection there? I wish he had directly named the case he's referring to in that article, because it's a little confusing to me.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-judge-temporarily-enjoins-federal-prison-officials-from-withholding-health-care-from-incarcerated-trans-people
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-new-bop-anti-trans-prison-policy
This is beyond barbaric and evil. There must be a way to stop it.
To Alessandra Vaca,
I appreciated your written command of the subject matter. I hope the President and his cronies get to understand said words of wisdom and soon. Posthaste!
I can talk from first hand experience from Trumps first term alone and the Fact that one of his specific policy changes damn near Killed me. No joking, no hyperbole. It came very close to doing that but I also know that it was the cause of killing a lot of other Americans with similar situations of mine. That is just on one subject.
I’m not sure why it is that on the Right Isle that life is so expendable and cheap to them unless it’s abortion?
Well, I know that the abortion is less about aborting as it is about taking away any chance of gaining a chance to get that Futire child into a Far white Christian nationalist ideology.
Society has real issues when it is forced to produce babies because or to keep up the Market share of Big Corporations. Sure, there are other reasons but it’s mainly to keep market share going and that’s the wrong reasons to have.
What else gets me is the inability of the Right to make it worth while for women to have babies.
My baby days are over and yes, subsidizing families with babies will tax those who don’t have children but that is something I am not much against doing bcz I am an American who cares about America after I am passed on. The same thing with Taxes. I know that my taxes have a purpose and pay it forward or should at least so knowing that my taxes helped anybody in any state ( Red or Blue) is worthwhile.